Family Trees

After our month of studying people we had fun today in preschool finishing up our "Family Trees" This was a 3 step project. 1. Taking pictures with disposable cameras the first week of preschool 2. Painting our "Abstract" trees using Feet and Hand prints (the feet created the trunk and the hands created leaves...if you couldn't tell!) 3. Taking our developed pictures and cutting and gluing them onto our trees. They all worked so hard using the scissors and gluing their pictures in place.

One at home Suggestion for those leftover pictures that were sent home with your child: Let them create their own book using their pictures. Have them glue the pictures onto paper and underneath each picture have them dictate what they would like to say. Staple the book and keep it on the bookshelf for future reading. They LOVE having their own book to read and it reinforces reading and writing skills when they see their own words in print.

C is for Carrot!

Our 3rd Week of Preschool we learned about the letter C and the sound our Zoophonics friend "Catina Cat" makes. To reinforce this concept we had fun painting with Carrots and we discussed how our Artist of the month Jackson Pollock would often use materials from around the house instead of only using paint brushes to create his paintings. It was fun to watch what the kids did with the carrots. We had a lot of stamping going on and a few attempts at splatter painting! :)

Our Bodies

Towards the end of September we studied our Bodies. We learned about how to keep our bodies healthy, had lots of fun feeding "Mr. Healthy" (A cardboard boy who only likes to eat the MOST healthy foods), and we learned about some of the body parts inside our bodies. Each child got their own cut outs to color and glue onto the correct location of their own body cutout

It may be hard to see from the picture but they are each holding a body part over their own body in the correct location. From top to bottom (Left to Right in the picture) we have Our Brain, Our Lungs, Our Heart, Our Stomach, and Our Intestines.

Centers

Just a few pictures I took during centers time our 2nd week of preschool.

The girls were all telling me what "Allie Alligator" Says while they worked on some handwriting.
The rice table was a big hit with all the kids, and they came up with the idea of putting the pretend fruit pieces inside the rice to bury them and then dig them out.

Jackson Pollock Painting

For September our Artist of the Month was Jackson Pollock. We had fun reading the book "Olivia" by Ian Falconer where she visits a Museum, sees a Jackson Pollock Splatter painting and is just sure she can paint one just like his, which she then tries on her bedroom wall at home.

We then had fun getting to do splatter painting outside (without getting in trouble after the fact!) and creating our own Jackson Pollock creations. It's always fun to see what we create. As you will see some of the kids decided that the splattering wasn't having the complete effect they wanted so they added a few brush strokes as well! :) Here are our results

Emotions

Our First Week of Preschool I asked the kids to show me their best Sad, Mad, Happy, Scared, or Surprised face so that I could take a picture. It's always so fun to see how expressive they can be, and also to see their interpretation of emotions. We had a great time during our 3rd week of preschool using these pictures to make our own emotion books. If you still have these around, read them with your child. Reading a book they have created themselves is a great way to get them excited about future reading and writing.

Here are some of my favorite pics:

Sad

Scared!

Happy

Surprised

Mad!